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It's horrible news for sure. She was a young woman who was seemingly very well loved in her job as a nurse in Cork University Hospital. My next door neighbour Alice also works there, I'll ask her if she knew Kelly, next time I see her.
There wasn't any notion of you taking the mick out of him in the OP (I liked what you wrote, and the mystery-quote is as tantalising as it is true!), and even if there had been, it'd just be harmless footy banter stuff anyway.
I had high hopes for Colin when he made his debut for Ireland - for some reason I have it stuck in my head that he scored on his debut and got Man of the Match in that game (he played 13 times for the senior Ireland team and scored once, against Finland on 21st August 2002).
He's originally a Ballincollig lad I'm pretty sure, so only a ten minute cycle from my home town in Bishopstown.
I was delighted when he joined Ipswich, since I always remembered his good showings for Ireland, and I was thinking he might do well for the Town. I could be confusing some old stories, but I think he suffered a pretty bad leg injury which put his career on hold for quite some time, not long after making his debut for Ireland.
In any case, thank you for your reply and it is good of you to send your thoughts to all impacted by Kelly's untimely passing.
It's probably not the ideal place to post this, and I don't know if the news reached the TWTD forum over the past couple of days, but Colin's wife Kelly sadly died last Thursday.
Colin and Kelly (RIP) are the parents of Arran, who is currently a player at Cork City FC, where Colin was manager until last season.
Keep Colin in your thoughts, and take care of yourselves.
Yes, and not only would I send the keeper up, I'd substitute him first for the spare goalie. Just as an extra psych-bonus. Someone would HAVE to mark him then, leaving an outfield player free.
Or...last minute you say...so maybe substitute him for an unused defender who's handy in the air.
Why don't we just get promoted to the top flight and do the job ourselves?
All this sitting around hoping someone else fixes our problems for us!
Let's get promoted again! Let's crack some heads! Let's score ten! Let's keep a clean sheet!
The only question should be, who should be on the receiving end of our incandescent wrath? Little yellow birds, perhaps? Because there's a deeper moral question in there too, if that's to be the case!
What if everyone ran onto the pitch pushing along a "Spear & Jackson 40cm Hand Push Cylinder Lawnmower" (currently on special offer in Argos)?
It could be seen as contributing to ground maintenance in an environmentally friendly manner, and would save the club a few quid in grass-mowing fees in the early weeks of the summer.
Would that help placate the situation for you at all?
45 seconds - Matt Healy's right-footed goal from a well worked corner, 40 yards out if you believe the delirious commentator, for 1-0
2 minutes - Matt Healy with a nice free kick into the box...some cube-headed lad nods it over the bar.
3 minutes 25 secs - Matt Healy with the corner into a phone-box full of players and eventually a Cork shirt boots it into the net, for 2-0
5 minutes 50 secs - Matt Healy with the interception, plays a quick one-two, legs it down to the byline then swings a delicious pass in..."does he have a left leg?...of course he does!..." for an assist to make it 4-0
ps: I don't want to hear any mockery of the Cork accent. We sing when we speak. In some silly octave. But we make a mean pig-bladder and cow-belly stew. So mean I could never eat it [turns greener than the grass, then heaves].
The premier division in Ireland kicks off on the 17th February for Cork City FC, first game will be at home to the mighty Bohemians, so he won't have much thumb twiddling time on his hands!
We'll finish third, eliminate Bolton in the semi final of the playoffs over two games that'll have almost as many red cards as goals, steamroller our way past Barnsley at Wembley ("Chaplin...Championship!"), then surpass all expectations (except our own) next season as we swashbuckle our way to fifth place in the Championship.
What happens in the 2023-24 playoffs is a question for next season's crystal ball.
True, and Town were also unbeaten at home until they encountered Biscuits FC at Portman Road.
So, given how football is a "funny old game" and tends to be full of oddities, ironies and coincidences, I'm looking forward to Monday evening's match facts reading thusly...
Possession 29% vs 70% (the other 1% was the ref getting the only fully inflated match-day ball down from the roof of the stand with a brush handle while sitting on the lineman's shoulders) Goals scored 0 - 1
Scorer: "69th minute: Virtue-Thick scores an o.g. with his nose. Assisted by Rushworth from a butter-gloved, flap-handed effort at a save"
I'll also take a 4-0 thrashing by Ipswich, but if the above happens, you heard it here first and will regret not putting a quid on!
I think it was this game where John Wark scored what seemed a perfectly good headed goal, but had it disallowed. He then went on to score an almost identical goal shortly afterwards, which the kn0bend of a ref was very kind to allow stand, in the 50th minute.
So Ipswich should have been 2-1 up by the time Wednesday scored in the last minute.
I listened to the game on a very crackly BBC Five Live in a mate's house (he's a big Wednesday fan!) in Cork. How the mighty have fallen! But here's to them both rising again!
"As close as I'll ever get" was a reference to the fact I'm living about four or five stunning volleyed goals away (in terms of distance) from Turner's Cross Stadium in Cork city where Matt is currently based.
My dreams of being a professional player died the day I became a professional software engineer instead. I never played at any sort of organised level outside of a bit of college football. No cheering crowds, no wing-marauding, just compile issues and deadlines for the following 20 years before I packed it all in about 5 years ago, to take 2 years off and then decided to go back to "school"!
A couple of nice goals for the young lad over the past week or so for Cork City FC, who are also top of their league at the moment!
And, shock horror, two assists as well, both directly from corners, not the Ipswich way at all but I'm sure that can be trained out of him once he gets back to Portman Road!
Videos timestamped just before the goals for your convenience (EDIT - timestamps don't seem to work, sorry for the...inconvenience!!), but feel free to watch them in their entirety as they're only 2 or 3 minutes long, and you'll better absorb the truly awesome standard of "Second Division" League of Ireland football. Matt's wearing shirt # 15.
I shouldn't laugh really - I can see the floodlights over the Turner's Cross stadium from my room here in Cork, but this is as close as I'll ever get to professional football I'd wager, especially as I'm mid-forties and now gone back to UCC for a PhD!
Goal #1 of the season for Matt last Monday, 18th April:
Assist directly from a corner in the same game:
Then last Friday, 22nd April, another handy finish:
...and another direct assist from a corner to secure the winner halfway through the second half:
Some of the standard of play is fairly dreadful at times in the second game, but let's put that down to the hot-headed rowdiness and pressure-cooker atmosphere of the local derby against south coast giants Cobh Ramblers, a former club of one of our former managers at Ipswich!
No commentary for the second game, but some of the rantings from the Cork City crowd are amusing, especially when Cobh Ramblers scored that messy rebound effort!
Coincidentally, Cork City FC are currently managed by Colin Healy, also ex- of Ipswich Town FC, and apparently he thinks quite highly of Matt (no relation it would seem, despite the same surname).
I'm from Cork as well, living back here for the past couple of years having originally left in the late 90's. I was only due to stay for the duration of a master's degree in UCC but I've become trapped by the virus thingie.
Another Cork lad that I know (haven't seen him in a few years) is a Town fan, we watched the 2002 World Cup game together with a bunch of other lads at the crack of dawn, that time when Matt Holland equalised for Ireland...against Cameroon I think it was?
I also got a loan of a copy of the 1978 FA Cup Final tape from some friends of a cousin, they were/are Town fans too (never met them, but the match was brilliant to watch!).
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